Age Progression/Regression by Conditional Adversarial Autoencoder

If I provide you a face image of mine (without telling you the actual age when I took the picture) and a large amount of face images that I crawled (containing labeled faces of different ages but not necessarily paired), can you show me what I would look like when I am 80 or what I was like when I w...

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Veröffentlicht in:2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) S. 4352 - 4360
Hauptverfasser: Zhifei Zhang, Yang Song, Hairong Qi
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: IEEE 01.07.2017
Schlagworte:
Aging
Biological system modeling
Face
Gallium nitride
Generators
Manifolds
Training
ISSN:1063-6919, 1063-6919
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Zusammenfassung:If I provide you a face image of mine (without telling you the actual age when I took the picture) and a large amount of face images that I crawled (containing labeled faces of different ages but not necessarily paired), can you show me what I would look like when I am 80 or what I was like when I was 5? The answer is probably a No. Most existing face aging works attempt to learn the transformation between age groups and thus would require the paired samples as well as the labeled query image. In this paper, we look at the problem from a generative modeling perspective such that no paired samples is required. In addition, given an unlabeled image, the generative model can directly produce the image with desired age attribute. We propose a conditional adversarial autoencoder (CAAE) that learns a face manifold, traversing on which smooth age progression and regression can be realized simultaneously. In CAAE, the face is first mapped to a latent vector through a convolutional encoder, and then the vector is projected to the face manifold conditional on age through a deconvolutional generator. The latent vector preserves personalized face features (i.e., personality) and the age condition controls progression vs. regression. Two adversarial networks are imposed on the encoder and generator, respectively, forcing to generate more photo-realistic faces. Experimental results demonstrate the appealing performance and flexibility of the proposed framework by comparing with the state-of-the-art and ground truth.
ISSN:1063-6919
1063-6919
DOI:10.1109/CVPR.2017.463